From wire reports
NEW YORK — The models auditioning for New York Fashion Week were undeniably thin. But it was only after the fashion industry started worrying about too-skinny models that casting agent James Scully began asking their age.
Most, he found, were under 16. “Things are very seriously wrong at this moment,” Scully said.
As another round of runway shows kicks off today, fashion insiders are again taking up the cause of emaciated models, this time with a new target to blame: youth.
The Council of Fashion Designers of America hosted a panel discussion Tuesday night on changing the standard model “sample size” from 0 to 4, part of the health initiative it started after the death three years ago of a model with an eating disorder.
But at Tuesday’s panel, “The Beauty of Health: Resizing the Sample Size,” designers, models and agents agreed that part of the problem was the dominance of very young models. “You can’t address the sample size 0 without addressing age,” said David Bonnouvrier, head of DNA Models.
The current youthquake happened as runway tastes moved from Brazilian bombshells such as Giselle Bundchen to Russians and Eastern Europeans, such as Natalia Vodianova, who previously disclosed her weight struggles, Scully said.
Mayer sounds off on Aniston, Simpson, not dating black women
NEW YORK — John Mayer is once again making news with his mouth, not his music.
The Grammy-winner gave an interview to the March edition of Playboy, and in it, he calls former girlfriend Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm” and says Jennifer Aniston is a technophobe who wishes she could go back to her successful prime — which he figures was 12 years ago. “The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, ‘These are the new rules,”’ he said.
Mayer talked about how much he still loves Aniston, whom he dated off and on for about two years before they broke up for good last year. “I’m very protective of Jen,” he says.
Yet he also doles out what appear to be digs at Aniston, including stressing their age difference (she turns 41 today). “ ... I can’t change the fact that I need to be 32,” he said.
Mayer was less protective of Simpson, whom he dated before Aniston, describing her as “sexual napalm.”
“That girl, for me, is a drug ... That girl is like crack cocaine to me.”
He also has a curious explanation for not dating black women — comparing his genitals to “a white supremacist.”
But he also says that black people love him, and tries to sum up what it means to be black: “It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.”
